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(ModeL) J. R. WEBER. TEMPORARY BINDER FOR MEMORANDUM BOOKS.

Patented Jul 11,1882;

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFF CE JOHN R. WEBER, OF BLOOMINGTON, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO THE LEADER PUBLISHING COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

TEMPORARY BINDER FOR MEMORANDUM-BOOKS.-

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 261,111, dated July 11, 1882, Application filed March 22, 1882. (ModeL) To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN it. WEBER, a citizen ot'the United States, residingat Bloomington, in the county of McLean and State ofIllinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Temporary Binders for Memorandum-Books, of which the following is a specification, reference being bad therein to the accompanying drawings.

My'invention relates to temporary binders for memorandum-books.

It consists in two covers, one of which is rigidly fixed at right angles to a back having a grooved guide. The other is movable, and also attached to back. It is composed of less binders board or pasteboard than the rigid cover, about one-sixth of it being flexible by the substitution of cloth. The cloth connects the movable cover with the metallic back, and by this means a hinge is formed which is of sufficient length and flexibility to permit said cover to be turned back and under the bottom cover. The holder is thus enabled to secure both covers and the tablet in one hand when desired. The leaves forming the tablet are of equal length, and are united at the back by glue or other adhesive material to a strip of pasteboard or wood. This strip extends slightly above and below the plane on the top and bottom of the paper. The strip, when firmly united to the tablet, is slid into the metallic grooved back. By this means the tablet can be firmly attached to or removed from the back and covers.

If it be desirable to remove the layers of paper composing the tablet one by one from the body, this can be accomplished, as the end ofsaid paper is united to the end of wooden or pasteboard strip by glue, and the two can be easily and completely separated by tearing.

It is quite apparent that the paper used in this article can be of any desired thickness or quality, so as to be suited for either pen, pen- 4 oil, orboth. It must also appear that one can make memoranda and retain the same intact by permitting the layers of paper to remain attached to the back strip or they can be removed singly or in numbers, if desired. If any or all of the leaves of the tablet remain in the 50 binder after they have been written over, they can be removed by simply sliding the strip to which they are glued from the back groove. Another tablet, similar to the one used, can be inserted into the groove and held and used in the manner and for the purposes of the one that preceded it. It will thus be observed that the tablet can be renewed indefinitely, and that the covers and back will outwear'many tablets.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a perspective view of my binder, showing the tablet partly out of the groove, disclosing the means by which said tablet is connected to and removed from the back. In this figure one-half of the layers are presumed to be torn away. Fig. 2 is also a perspective view, show- 6 ing the several partsin their ordinary relative positions, the layers composing the tablet being intact. Fig. 3 represents a side elevation of the tablet glued to the back strip. Fig. 4 is a side elevation of the metallic grooved back that secures the tablet-strip, and Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the same.

The letter A represents the tablet,

B is the movable top cover.

0 is the cloth forminga hinge which unites cover B with the back of the binder.

D is the metallic back, which occupies a vertical position when the book is lying horizontally. This back has a grooved or n-shaped top, D, and a right-angled bottom, (marked'EL) E is a strip of wood or pasteboard, to which the tablet A is secured by glue F or other adhesive substance.

G represents the bottom cover. ltis rigidly fixed to the right-angled projection H .of the back D. A space is left between the rear end of cover G and back D to receive the lower end of strip E. This recess at the bottom and goose-neck atthe top form a substantial groove,

by means of which the strip E,which holds the 0 tablet, is firmly secured to the binder.

K is a leather strip,which passes around the cloth 0 from cover to cover, aiding to unite and strengthen the several parts. The cloth 0 is glued to the cover B and back D, and laps 5 under to aid in securing the right-angled projection H to the under cover, G. Said under cover is also glued to projection H.

I am aware that it is notnew in the art of book-binding to construct a cover of binders roe board with a long flexible hinge, by means of I back D and its right-angled projection H, to which said cover can be turned back and unform a groove for the reception of the bottom der the lower cover without breaking or bendside of strip E, the cover B having a hinge, 15 ing the binders board. I therefore do not claim while cover G is rigidly secured to the inside such, broadly; but of projection H of back D, substantially as de- What I do claim, and desire to secure by scribed, and for the purposes set forth. Letters Patent, is In testimony whereof I atfix my signature in The tablet A and strip E, glued together, in presence of two witnesses. combination with the metallic back D, having JOHN 1t. WEBER. grooved projection D and right-angled projection H, and the covers B and Gr, the rear end of cover Gr serving, in conjunction with the Witnesses:

RoB'r. S. MoIN'rYR-E, G. H. BLODGETT. 

